Solutions for People

13 Complex challenges

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Complex challenges

Tackle complex local and global challenges with an interdisciplinary and systems-based approach

Complex Challenges

  • Integrated environmental & sustainability lens in programs
  • Changes to APSC professions due to projects with disciplinary intersections
  • Solutions which bridge the gaps between a person and big systems
  • Multidisciplinary problem-solving sessions & workshops

Integrated environmental & sustainability lens in programs

Changes to APSC professions due to projects with disciplinary intersections

Solutions which bridge the gaps between a person and big systems

Multidisciplinary problem-solving sessions & workshops

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Impactful research

Advance disciplinary knowledge and the translation of research and innovation for societal impact

Impactful Research

  • Research which looks across the entire system, lifecycle and journey or a person or patient
  • High impact research identified through community engagement
  • Leaders in built environment adaptation

Research which looks across the entire system, lifecycle and journey or a person or patient

High impact research identified through community engagement

Leaders in built environment adaptation

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Entrepreneurial thinking

Nurture the entrepreneurial mindset and venture creation to support innovative and transformational solutions

Entrepreneurial Thinking

  • Integration of Design Thinking principles within each of our Faculty’s disciplines
  • Entrepreneurship fellowships for grad students & faculty
  • Innovation developed by combining creativity with market intelligence
  • Entrepreneurship supported in communities of all sizes
  • Clean energy solutions and ventures

Integration of Design Thinking principles within each of our Faculty’s disciplines

Entrepreneurship fellowships for grad students & faculty

Innovation developed by combining creativity with market intelligence

Entrepreneurship supported in communities of all sizes

Clean energy solutions and ventures

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Innovative spirit

Create time and space for innovation

Innovative Spirit

  • Streamlined workloads & processes to protect time for creativity

Streamlined workloads & processes to protect time for creativity

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Integrated disciplines

Amplify the synergies across our disciplines

Integrated Disciplines

  • Strategic joint hires in emerging areas
  • Solutions brought to life through diverse collaborative thinking
  • Using our campus as living laboratory
  • Focused planetary health research institute

Strategic joint hires in emerging areas

Solutions brought to life through diverse collaborative thinking

Using our campus as living laboratory

Focused planetary health research institute